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.topic Window
Window MENU (Alt-W) {─┘ Prior:NoContext}
The Window menu contains commands to close,
move, resize and other window-management
commands.
Most windows in this program have standard
window elements, including scroll bars, a
close box, and zoom icons.
Topics:
{Palette:palette}
{Size/Move:SizeMove} │ {Zoom:Zoom} │ {Tile:Tile} │ {Cascade:Cascade}
{Next:Next} │ {Previous:Previous} │ {Close:Close}
{User screen:userscreen} │ {Video mode:videomode}
.topic SizeMove
Window│Size/Move (Ctrl-F5) {─┘ Prior:Window}
This command lets you change the size or
position of the active window.
╔═[■]═════ Title ═════[]═╗ <--Title Bar
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╚════════════════════════─┘ <--Resize corner
Topics:
{Size:size} │ {Move:move}
.topic Size
Window│Size (Ctrl-F5) {─┘ Prior:SizeMove}
Press "Shift" while using the arrow keys to
change the size of the active window. When
you're done, press ─┘ Enter.
If a window has a Resize corner, you can drag
that corner to resize the window.
.topic Move
Window│Move (Ctrl-F5) {─┘ Prior:SizeMove}
Use the arrow keys to move the active window.
When you're done moving the window, press ─┘
Enter.
Also, you can move a window by dragging its
title bar with the mouse.
.topic Zoom
Window│Zoom (F5) {─┘ Prior:Window}
Zoom will resize the active window to the
maximum size. If the window is already
zoomed, you can choose this command to restore
it to its previous size. You can also
double-click anywhere on the window's title
bar to zoom or unzoom the window.
╔═[■]═════════════════[]═╗ Zoom
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╚═════════════════════════╝
.topic Tile
Window│Tile (Alt-T) {─┘ Prior:Window}
Tiles desktop windows, making all visible.
┌────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ╔[■]═══════1═[]╗┌────────────2──┐ │
│ ║ ║│ │ │
│ ║ ║│ │ │
│ ║ ║│ │ │
│ ╚═══════════════╝└───────────────┘ │
│ ┌────────────3──┐┌────────────4──┐ │
│ │ ││ │ │
│ │ ││ │ │
│ │ ││ │ │
│ └───────────────┘└───────────────┘ │
└────────────────────────────────────┘
Tiled Windows
.topic Cascade
Window│Cascade (Alt-A) {─┘ Prior:Window}
Cascades desktop windows, making all visible.
┌──────────────────────────1─┐
│┌─────────────────────────2─┐
││┌────────────────────────3─┐
│││╔[■]═════════════════4═[]╗
│││║ ║
│││║ ║
│││║ ║
│││║ ║
│││║ ║
└└└╚═════════════════════════╝
Cascaded Windows
.topic Next
Window│Next (F6) {─┘ Prior:Window}
Next will cycle forward once through the
Desktop's collection of windows.
.topic Previous
Window│Previous (Shift-F6) {─┘ Prior:Window}
Previous will cycle backward once through the
Desktop's collection of windows.
.topic Close
Window│Close (Alt-F3) {─┘ Prior:Window}
This gets rid of the active window.
You can also click on the Close box in the
upper left corner to close a window.
Close
Icon:[■] ╔═[■]═════════════════[]═╗
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.topic Palette
PALETTE Menu {─┘ Prior:Window}
A "palette" is a set of colors specially
selected to get along with a Color, Black &
White or LED screen.
You may change palettes now, from the menu, or
use a command-line "/switch" to start the
program with a particular palette.
Topics:
{Color:color} │ {Black & White:BlackWhite} │ {Monochrome:monochrome}
.topic Color
Help on COLOR {─┘ Prior:palette}
Select palette for a color monitor.
Command-line switch: /color
.topic BlackWhite
Help on BLACK & WHITE {─┘ Prior:palette}
Select palette for Black & White monitor. This
is usually found on systems with a color video
card, but which have a single-color monitor
attached.
Also works well with the special screens found
on portable and notebook computers.
Command-line switch: /bw
.topic Monochrome
Help on MONOCHROME {─┘ Prior:palette}
Select palette for a Monochrome monitor. This
is a single-color display, with a Hercules
graphics adaptor.
Command-line switch: /mono
.topic VideoMode
Help on VIDEO MODE {─┘ Prior:window}
For systems with EGA or VGA video cards,
toggling this option lets you change to
43-line (EGA) or 50-line (VGA) per screen.
.topic UserScreen
Help on USER SCREEN (Alt-F5) {─┘ Prior:window}
Lets you view the last DOS screen; either as
it was before starting the program, or from
the last time you used the DOS shell command.